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Learn about Meet at Mia’s Summer Series, which ran June through September 2025 and featured live performances, food trucks, art making, and more.
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Learn more about this Meet at Mia event series centered around &#8220;Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys,&#8221; held in spring 2025.
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Connect, create, kick back! Meet at Mia is a series of free Thursday evening events for adults. Get to know us—and each other—with live music, art making, special programs, and unique food and drink (for purchase). No registration or secret handshake required.
Meet at Mia ranges from casual open studios to museum-wide art parties. Find what suits you on the event pages below.
<h2>Spring Programs</h2>
May 14 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia#may14">Breaking the Mold</a> 
May 21 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia#may21">Talk Dürer To Me</a> 
May 28 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia#may28">Echoes through Time</a>
<h2>Summer Programs</h2>
June 4 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#june4">Summer Kickoff</a> 
June 11 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#june11">Word Play</a> 
June 18 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#june18">Celebrate Juneteenth</a> 
June 25 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#june25">Pride in Concert</a>
July 9 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#july9">Brit Pop</a> 
July 16 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#july16">Cutting Edge</a> 
July 23 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#july23">Sharing Stories</a> 
July 30 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#july30">Containing Multitudes</a>
August 6 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#aug6">Dog Day</a> 
August 13 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#aug13">Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes</a> 
August 20 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#aug20">Movie in the Park: The Devil Wears Prada</a> 
August 27 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#aug27">Summer on a Stick</a>
September 3 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#sept3">Building Blocks</a> 
September 10 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#sept10">Moving in the Park: In the Heights</a> 
September 17 <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/meet-at-mia-summer-series-2026#sept17">Sweater Weather</a>
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Meet at Mia: Summer Series 2026

Celebrate Minnesota as a melting pot for our third year of the Meet at Mia Summer Series. Experience different aspects of Minnesota each week, from state pastimes like cornhole and the State Fair, to local artist collectives and celebration of identity. Each week features music, art making, and unique food and drinks.
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<h2>June Programs</h2>
June 4 | Summer Kickoff 
Kick off summer at Mia with a performance by NUNNABOVE. Make art with Mia teaching artists, then head to the Print Study Room to see unique summertime prints. Be sure to wash your hands after eating ParraLily’s award-winning fries.
Groove with NUNNABOVE, 6 p.m. 
Make with Akiko Ostlund 
Create with Laura Wennstrom 
View unique prints in Mia’s Print Study Room 
Eat ParraLily Food Truck, 5–8 p.m. 
Enjoy Unbakeable Food Truck, 5–8 p.m.
June 11 | Word Play 
Joyeux anniversaire, Gustave Courbet! The late French Realist painter was known to include puns in his artwork, typically taking a dig at the bourgeoisie. Celebrate his birthday with music, making, and a little bit of magic.
Dance with DJ Diane Miller 
Make with Sophia Weisensel 
Enjoy magic by Mike Davis, 6–8 p.m. 
Guess along with Trivia Mafia 
Play Mia Mad Libs 
Eat Trickster Tacos, 5–8 p.m.
June 18 | Celebrate Juneteenth 
Celebrate Juneteenth at Mia with a night of music hosted by Brass Solidarity. Tour Black artists in Mia’s collection and make your own art with Whitney Terrill. West Indies Soul Food Truck returns!
Jam with Brass Solidarity (full lineup coming soon), 5–9 p.m. 
Print with Whitney Terrill 
Tour a selection of Black artists at Mia 
Explore Mia&#8217;s Print Study Room 
Eat West Indies Soul Food, 5–8 p.m.
June 25 | Pride in Concert 
Start Pride weekend a little early with a performance by Keep for Cheap. Amar Agba leads art making and MN Nice Cream provides the sweets. Take home memories from the Traveling Photobooth.
Rock with Keep for Cheap, 6 p.m. 
Make with Amar Agba 
Tour 2SLGBTQIA+ artists in Mia’s collection, 6 and 7:15 p.m. 
Pose with the Traveling Photobooth 
Eat MN Nice Cream, 5–8 p.m.
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<h2>July Programs</h2>
July 9 | Brit Pop 
Celebrate English painter David Hockney’s 89th birthday! Dive into our metaphorical swimming pool with a tour of Mia’s permanent collection exploring themes seen in Hockney’s work. Diane Miller spins tunes while Sarah Nicole leads art making.
Dance with DJ Diane Miller 
Create with Sarah Nicole 
Tour Mia’s permanent collection, 6 and 7:15 p.m. 
Eat Las Twins food truck, 5–8 p.m. 
Drink MinneTea, 5–8 p.m.
July 16 | Cutting Edge 
Enjoy Mia’s selection of avant garde (or experimental) sculptures and make your own with Northern Clay Center. Lone Rock Bride provides the music while MinneTea brings the sips.
Jam with Lone Rock Bride, 6 p.m. 
Sculpt with Northern Clay Center 
Quiz yourself with Trivia Mafia 
Drink MinneTea, 5–8 p.m. 
Eat Brick Oven Bus, 5–8 p.m.
July 23 | Sharing Stories 
We express ourselves through the clothes we wear, but can our clothing also tell a story? Mayan huipiles do, through embroidered motifs. Not just clothing, they’re a way to communicate and share living history. Send off “An Indigenous Art: Huipiles from Mia’s Collection” (closing August 2) with this special program.
Groove with DJ TaliaKnight 
Weave with Ivonne Yanez 
Craft with Textile Center 
Tour “<a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/indigenous-art-huipiles">An Indigenous Art: Huipiles from Mia’s Collection</a>” 6 and 7:15 p.m. 
Eat Que Tal Street Eats, 5–8 p.m.
July 30 | Containing Multitudes  
Walt Whitman has no problem contradicting himself. After all, he contains multitudes. Explore what it means to be you before “Containing Multitudes” closes on August 2. Trickster Tacos brings the bites while Courtney Yasmineh performs her beloved north woods anthems.
Listen to Courtney Yasmineh, 6 p.m. 
Tour “<a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/containing-multitudes">Containing Multitudes</a>,” 6 and 7:15 p.m. 
Eat Trickster Tacos, 5–8 p.m.
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<h2>August Programs</h2>
August 6 | Dog Day 
Who let the dogs out? Mia, for the second year in a row! Bring your furry friend to the courtyard (on a leash!) and take a picture with The Traveling Photobooth. Laura Wennstrom helps you create a frame for your portrait. Have a pooch with no patience? Grab a pup cup for the road from the Sota Fountain.
Move with Nina Luna, 6 p.m. 
Pose with The Traveling Photobooth 
Frame your furry friend with Laura Wennstrom 
Tour Dogs in Mia’s collection, 6 and 7:15 p.m. 
Play with Cornchip Dog Collective 
Dine on Las Twins, 5–8 p.m.
August 13 | Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes 
The rhyme might be for kids, but the exhibition is for everyone. Experience photographs of the human body before collaging your own. Cast adornments with WOW Mobile Metal Lab, and fill your stomach with ParraLily. Enjoy a live performance from Chutes at 6 p.m.
Jam with Chutes, 6 p.m. 
Make with Akiko Ostlund 
Cast with WOW Mobile Metal Lab 
Eat ParraLily, 5–8 p.m. 
Tour &#8220;<a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/head-shoulders-knees-toes">Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes</a>&#8221;
August 20 | Movie in the Park: The Devil Wears Prada 
Not only are new textiles on view now, but Mia is preparing for “<a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/paris-couture">Paris Couture</a>,” our next special exhibition opening on October 4. Experience all things fashion this evening with a performance by Mother Soki. End the night with a screening of The Devil Wears Prada. Florals outside of spring? Groundbreaking.
Listen to Mother Soki, 6 p.m. 
Tour fashion on display 
Create with Textile Center 
Eat Que Tal Street Eats, 5–8 p.m. 
Watch The Devil Wears Prada, sunset (approximately 8 p.m.)
August 27 | Summer on a Stick 
For those who want the State Fair experience without the crowds (or the parking), visit Mia instead! We’ve got lawn games, live music, and delicious food. Mia may not have a Miracle of Life building, but we&#8217;ll celebrate the Miracle of Art!
Groove with Ozone Creations, Bakkwooddrift, and Gifted Handz, 5 p.m. 
Create with Laura Wennstrom 
Watch Alondra M. Garza’s live painting demonstration 
Search on a scavenger hunt with Michael Gaughan 
Eat KCM Eggrolls and MN Nice Cream, 5–8 p.m.
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<h2>September Programs</h2>
September 3 | Building Blocks 
Kenzo Tange is one of Japan’s most celebrated architects, and we have his work in our own backyard. Like, you’re looking at it. Celebrate the late artist’s birthday (September 4) alongside his 1970s addition to Mia’s building.
Jam with Maygen &amp; The Birdwatcher 
Craft with Akiko Ostlund 
View artwork in Mia’s Print Study Room 
Eat ParraLily, 5–8 p.m. 
Drink MinneTea, 5–8 p.m.
September 10 | Movie in the Park: In the Heights 
Kick off Hispanic Heritage Month a little early with the new exhibition “<a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/maria-berrio-songlines">María Berrío: Songlines</a>” (opening September 12) and newly installed Latin American paintings.
Groove with DJ TaliaKnight 
Make with Alondra M. Garza 
Tour brand-new paintings from “<a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/meeting-point-mary-ingebrand-pohlad-collection-latin-american-art">Meeting Point: The Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad Collection of Latin American Art</a>,” 6 and 7:15 p.m. 
Watch In the Heights, sunset (approximately 8 p.m.) 
Eat Que Tal Street Eats, 5–8 p.m.
September 17 | Sweater Weather 
Don’t hold us to the theme! Minnesota weather is unpredictable, and we wrote this in March. Wrap up summer in the courtyard with a performance by Gozie Ukaga. Craft with Laura Wennstrom and WOW Mobile Metal Lab, and enjoy Hana Bistro as we sail into fall.
Jam with Gozie Ukaga, 6 p.m. 
Create with Laura Wennstrom 
Pour with WOW Mobile Metal Lab 
Tour cozy artworks, 6 and 7:15 p.m. 
Eat Hana Bistro, 5–8 p.m.

Mia’s award-winning podcast, <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/the-object-podcast">The Object</a>, tells the surprising, true stories behind the art and artists in the collection. Called “playful, thoughtful, and elegant” and “on par with This American Life” by critics, it’s the museum as you’ve never heard it before. The Object LIVE! is a series of live taping events—everything you love about the podcast brought to life on stage.
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May 21, 2026
This live taping of The Object podcast, hosted by Tim Gihring, features storytelling, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me–style quizzes and prizes, and very special musical guests Philip Brunelle and members of the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers. Plus, a curator conversation with Mia’s Director Katie Luber! It’s a big-hearted, irreverent romp through the Renaissance, all about the astounding art and life of painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer on his 555th birthday and the timeless beauty of the cultural revolution that changed the world.
VocalEssence is one of the world’s premier choral ensembles, based in the Twin Cities and internationally celebrated for its adventurous and virtuosic musical experiences. The singers have toured widely, performed more than 300 commissioned works, and won more Chorus America awards than any other ensemble. The group has been led since its founding in 1969 by Philip Brunelle, a modern-day Renaissance man whose talents have played out across six decades and six continents, including many memorable appearances on A Prairie Home Companion.

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<blockquote>“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
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—Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself, 51,” Leaves of Grass (1855)
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For 250 years, the United States has defined itself in terms of plurality. Its Latin motto, e pluribus unum (out of many, one), notes the interdependence of the multiple and the singular in our national conception.
This exhibition explores the diversity of American experience that photographs can hold, and the manner in which photographers have sought to “contain multitudes,” in the words of the 19th-century writer Walt Whitman, by maintaining an expansive ecosystem of images celebrating the contradictions of American life, culture, and history.

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Containing Multitudes

&#8220;Year of the Horse: Hoofbeats through Time&#8221; celebrates the enduring power, beauty, and symbolism of horses in Chinese art and culture. Across millennia, the horse has galloped through China’s imagination—as chariot puller, zodiac sign, loyal companion, and poetic metaphor.
This exhibition explores the horse as both a real creature and a cultural emblem—embodying strength, status, virtue, and aspiration. From ritual bronzes to scholar’s miniatures, imperial scrolls to popular expressions, the horse reveals a rich interplay of mythology, mobility, and meaning. As we welcome a new Year of the Horse, these timeless images invite reflection on what it means to move, strive, and endure.

Year of the Horse: Hoofbeats through Time

In the first half of the 20th century, Germany experienced the last years of the German Empire, World War I and the revolution that followed, the liberal Weimar Republic, the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Modern art played an important role in the discourse of the period, and politics influenced the arts.
This exhibition features more than 70 paintings and sculptures from the collections of the Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), the distinguished modern art museum of the Berlin State Museums. It traces the German experience in the visual arts over four decades.
Beginning with the Expressionist reaction and opposition to the conservative artistic regime of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the exhibition moves on to the New Objectivity movement, the modern style of the 1920s. Between the wars, German artists participated in international experiments with abstraction. Painters and sculptors critiqued social currents, but most were silenced under the Nazis. This exhibition concludes with an epilogue that examines the ambiguous aftermath of World War II.
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Mia offers free admission to ticketed exhibitions for veterans and active-duty military and families, Minnesota WIC, MCAD students and staff, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board staff, and museum professionals. You can reserve free admission tickets by calling Visitor Experience at 612-870-3000.
Use our <a href="https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/minneapolisInstituteOfArt/exhibition/6883a787-6181-449a-a25c-da42110a78e4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">free audio guide</a> to explore the exhibition wherever you are or to enhance your visit to the museum. For the best listening experience during your visit, bring your own headsets to listen to the audio guide on your personal device.
Note: This exhibition includes depictions of nudity, scenes of war and violence, and Nazi and Holocaust imagery.
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Mia members at all levels can see the exhibition for free on Member Days: Thursday, March 12; Tuesday, March 31; Thursday, April 9; Saturday, April 18; Friday, May 15; Sunday, June 7; Thursday, June 18; and Wednesday, July 8, 2026.
Not a member yet? Learn more and join today.
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Enhance your visit with a free audio guide that uncovers the bold, urgent art of a nation in upheaval. Hear how artists challenged power, endured persecution, and redefined modern art in a time of revolution and war.
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Join us for a free public tour of the exhibition and gain deeper insight into the pieces in the exhibition. Note: The tour is free, but you need a ticket to enter the exhibition.
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Learn about the exhibition’s main themes and artworks, and prepare your students for a visit.
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Highlighting the influences and antipathies among art, politics, identity, and censorship, this book brings together more than 70 painting and sculptures from the distinguished modern art collections of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
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Join us for a free workshop that uses art as a classroom resource for exploring the Holocaust and other genocides.
Friday, June 26 
10 a.m.–4 p.m.
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Teacher Workshop: Teaching Genocide through Art

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Experience the special exhibition through the artist’s lens. In this five-part series, Mia teaching artists will help you explore the creative periods reflected in the exhibition.
Saturday, March 14, 10 a.m.; Saturday, April 11, 10 a.m.; Saturday, May 9, 10 a.m.; Saturday, June 13, 10 a.m.; and Saturday, July 11, 10 a.m.
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Vision and Voice, Mia’s event for young adults, is your stop for chill vibes, good food, and amazing art. Plus enjoy free access to “Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945.”
Thursday, April 9 
6–9 p.m.
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Join Mia and The National WWII Museum for a free educator workshop exploring the powerful connections between art, history, and culture.
Saturday, March 14 
10 a.m.–3 p.m.
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Educator Workshop: Art, Politics, and the History of Germany in Turbulent Times

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Join us for an evening designed just for educators, featuring free admission to the special exhibition, new classroom-ready learning resources, light refreshments, and time to connect with colleagues.
Thursday, March 12 
4:30–7 p.m
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Mia welcomes experts from the University of Minnesota for a lively talk about the intertwined nature of politics and aesthetics, the relationship of painting to other art forms, ambiguity in art, and the idea of the New Woman.
Sunday, June 7, 2 p.m.
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Panel Discussion: Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945

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Join Emily Evans of the Neue Nationalgalerie for a closer look at specific works in the exhibition and stories about what happened to them between creation and joining the Neue Nationalgalerie&#8217;s collection.
Thursday, April 30, 6:30 p.m.
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Emily Evans: Case Studies from “Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945”

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Join Irina Hiebert Grun, a curator at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (NNg), as she discusses the history and collections of the NNg and how both reflect the turbulent history of Germany in the 20th century.
Saturday, March 7, 2 p.m.
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The Neue Nationalgalerie: Modern Art and Politics in Berlin

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Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Derived from a Nahuatl word, a huipil is a traditional blouse worn by women throughout Mesoamerica, particularly among the Maya, since before the 16th century when the Spanish arrived in the region. The garment remains especially prevalent in Guatemala’s highland regions, where a majority of Maya descendants reside today.
Huipiles are traditionally handwoven on a backstrap loom in two or three rectangular panels, later sewn together. Decoration, motifs, and color choices serve as a visual language that uniquely identifies the wearer’s village and social standing.
The selection presented in this exhibition comes from a significant donation of textiles made to the museum by Richard Simmons and his wife. Their contribution has greatly enhanced representation of Latin American culture in the museum’s collection.

Guatemala woman's ceremonial blouse, or huipil, featuring white, red and orange colors

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